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ovl: update doc

The quirk for file locks and leases no longer applies.

Add missing info about renaming directory residing on lower layer.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Miklos Szeredi 8 years ago
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Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt

@@ -185,13 +185,13 @@ filesystem, so both st_dev and st_ino of the file may change.
 
 Any open files referring to this inode will access the old data.
 
-Any file locks (and leases) obtained before copy_up will not apply
-to the copied up file.
-
 If a file with multiple hard links is copied up, then this will
 "break" the link.  Changes will not be propagated to other names
 referring to the same inode.
 
+Directory trees are not copied up.  If rename(2) is performed on a directory
+which is on the lower layer or is merged, then -EXDEV will be returned.
+
 Changes to underlying filesystems
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